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Approaches to Science Fiction

Donald L. Lawler

First published 1978
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xi+560
ISBN 0395254965

"Copyright (c) 1978" on copyright page. No statement of edition or printing on verification copy. It has a gutter code on page 560: "BCDEFGHIJ-A-8543210".

Year Reviewer Publication
1982 C. Bruce Hunter Science-Fiction Studies, July 1982

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
29 Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
32 Darkness Lord George Gordon Byron Poem
36 Frankenstein (excerpt) Mary Shelley Short Fiction
58 Some Words with a Mummy Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
72 The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
86 The Star H. G. Wells Short Story
97 Part 2: Fantasy Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
99 Space Opera (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
101 Enchantress of Venus Leigh Brackett Novella
154 Speculative Fantasy Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
156 Mars Is Heaven! Ray Bradbury Short Story
172 Encounter in the Dawn Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
183 Weird Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
185 The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
192 The Mindworm Cyril Kornbluth Short Story
204 Time Travel and Parallel Worlds (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
206 "All You Zombies ..." Robert A. Heinlein Short Story
218 All the Myriad Ways Larry Niven Short Story
227 Part 3: Hard Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
230 Speculative Hard Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
232 The Cold Equations Tom Godwin Novelette
253 Dark Benediction Walter M. Miller, Jr. Novella
299 Aliens (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
301 Berom John Berryman Short Story
319 First Contact Murray Leinster Novelette
346 Robots (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
348 Liar! Isaac Asimov Short Story
364 Happy Ending Henry Kuttner Novelette
381 Part 4: Soft Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
383 Speculative Soft Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
385 Nine Lives Ursula K. Le Guin Novelette
408 The Sliced-Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World Philip José Farmer Short Story
422 Utopias and Dystopias (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
425 When the Vertical World Becomes Horizontal Alexei Panshin Short Story
441 The Star Beast Poul Anderson Novelette
465 Social Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
467 Baby, You Were Great! Kate Wilhelm Short Story
480 Coming Attraction Fritz Leiber Short Story
493 Part 5: Science Fiction Mixtures (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
494 Mystery and Horror Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
496 Who Goes There? Don A. Stuart Novella
543 Comic Science Fiction (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay
545 Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead Robert Sheckley Short Story
551 Selected Bibliography (Approaches to Science Fiction) uncredited Essay
557 Index (Approaches to Science Fiction) uncredited Essay
ix Preface (Approaches to Science Fiction) Donald L. Lawler Essay